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First professionals obtained their certificates Legal Technologies: ‘It was intensive, fun, and enlightening’12 April 2022Last week, the first seven professionals successfully completed the new Leiden Legal Technologies Programme (LLTP). They received their certificates d...
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Frost for sale!12 April 2022Liquid nitrogen, frozen fruit and levitating market-goers. On Friday 8 April, visitors to the weekly market in the Merenwijk district were exposed to ...
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New statistical method brings together studies at an early stage04 April 2022During the coronavirus pandemic, scientists were in a hurry to find drugs that would help fight the disease. To combine the research that was being ca...
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Algorithms combat environmental pollution from ships04 April 2022Did you know that algorithms can help with the prevention of air pollution and ships sinking in the sea? A team of Leiden University researchers have ...
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Drugs with fewer side effects through a collaboration between LACDR and PTS30 March 2022LACDR, the Leiden Institute for Drug Research, developed better tolerated excipients to prevent adverse effects related to the surface of nanosized dr...
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From basic research to healthcare tools29 March 2022On April 1, Marco Spruit, Professor of Advanced Data Science in Population Health at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden Instit...
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Customer-friendly Dutch chatbots28 March 2022Ever heard of conversational artificial intelligence (AI)? Anyone who has ever interacted with Siri or Alexa is familiar with this technology. We use ...
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia21 March 2022Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these c...
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Cities have a direct influence on evolution18 March 2022A global biological study has provided the most direct evidence to date that humans, and specifically cities, are the drivers of evolutionary change o...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers17 March 2022Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enab...
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LDE minor focuses on resources needed for energy transition15 March 2022European dependence on Russian gas, earthquake damage in Groningen and the changing climate: the call for an energy transition is getting louder. This...
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Oude UB exhibition shows the beauty of ‘pavement plants’10 March 2022For a few years now, Leiden’s Hortus botanicus has been mounting a campaign to cherish wild plants in the city – for the biodiversity and beauty of th...
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'We want to use academic knowledge to make the horticulture sector more sustainable'10 March 2022The Dutch horticultural sector faces the challenge of becoming fully circular by 2030. Professor of Environmental Biology Peter van Bodegom is going t...
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National Meat Free Week: the main reasons to switch to a plant-based diet08 March 2022National Meat Free Week (Nationale Week Zonder Vlees, 7–13 March) is an initiative to reduce meat consumption. Assistant professor Paul Behrens is stu...
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Algorithms can also learn without examples28 February 2022In donut-shaped buildings, particle accelerators take super-detailed X-ray images. Yet those images are not good enough to learn how to drive on hydro...